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Another of Frank's mutually beneficial accommodations is his relationship with McGee. Critics of the speaker claim his rule is about as democratic as that of Indira Gandhi (although he will never be threatened by democratic elections), but Frank disagrees. It is "not dictatorship from above, it's regimentation wanted from below. Most members do not have strong views on public policy". he says. McGee is generally open-minded about social issues, although he is a conservative with close ties to the airlines, liquor and racing interests and power companies, and Frank seems to be aware of the benefits...
...compelled to take some individuals into custody for views that strike at the country's existence, then nobody should interfere." Was that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India speaking? No, this time it was Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of neighboring Pakistan, defending the arrest and imprisonment of opposition politicians following parliamentary elections last month. Charging that Bhutto had stolen the election, opposition M.P.s refused to take their seats in the National Assembly; nearly 100 of their supporters have been killed in clashes with police, and 25,000 others arrested...
...issue, above everything else, cost Indira Gandhi the election: her mass sterilization campaign. No one questions that India needs effective family planning; after all, the country's population has almost doubled in 30 years (to 620 million) and may reach one billion by the year 2000. But the government's program to vasectomize millions of Indian males who had fathered two or more children-ruthlessly and often illegally applied-came to symbolize the dangers of authoritarian rule. TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Lawrence Malkin reports...
...when Mrs. Gandhi called for national elections. To help ensure the program's success, government censors prohibited newspapers from publishing any criticism of family planning. The program was pressed by the governmental bureaucracy, from New Delhi to the district level, and quickly became the pet project of Indira's zealous son, Sanjay...
...million, presumably to please Sanjay. Some 700,000 operations were actually performed, a phenomenal increase over the previous year's total of 129,000. Villagers told bitter jokes against Mrs. Gandhi, one of them based on her 1971 election slogan, GARIBI HATAO (abolish poverty). The new slogan: INDIRA HATAO, INDRI BACHAO (abolish Indira and save your penis...